Kirk Drinkwater @KirkDrinkwater
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Tommy. By Kipling. kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_tom…
Favourable Exchange Rate The Correspondence of Tiglath-Pileser III and Sargon II from Calah/Nimrud (Letters from Central Assyria) CDLI P393679 SAA 19 0019 oracc.museum.upenn.edu/saao/saa19/cor…
Kobe Bryant on being undeniable: "At the end of my first season in the NBA, we had made it to the Semifinals, up against Utah. But in the deciding fifth game, I let fly four airballs, and we lost our chance at the title. Those shots let me know what I needed to work on the…
THREAD. A number of people have responded to this tweet that there is nothing wrong with a company a) making a profit and b) that supermarket margins are in any case low. Both of these things are true. But the supermarket sector is unlike any other. A bit of background. 1/
THREAD. A number of people have responded to this tweet that there is nothing wrong with a company a) making a profit and b) that supermarket margins are in any case low. Both of these things are true. But the supermarket sector is unlike any other. A bit of background. 1/
Discipline is conditioning your brain to not give a shit if it sucks, if it’s hard, or if it hurts. If it needs to get done, it gets done.
“One should not read like a dog obeying its master, but like an eagle hunting its prey.” —Dee Hock
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.
The impact of Usher's Super Bowl performance: • Spotify streams are up +550% • Concert ticket prices are up +40% Even crazier, @TickPick says 38% of the total tickets they have sold for Usher's upcoming tour came after last night's game. The Super Bowl effect is real 📈
A pair of armlets from #Roman-period Egypt, made of gold with green glass decoration. They were probably made (& worn) about 1900-2000 years ago #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology
1/n: There are some academic papers that are so brilliantly and so accessibly written and so universal in scope that they transcend disciplines and stand as timeless testaments to both great thinking and great writing. Here's a short personal selection:
By the artifice of Man and God is born a furnace that forges the future. This is the big nuclear reactor thread! A beginner's guide to the main reactor types, with lots of diagrams...
The Æthelwulf Ring, c. 828-858. An Anglo-Saxon gold finger-ring with royal connections. Discovered by chance in a cart rut in the village of Laverstock, Wiltshire, in about 1780! 😮 An inscription reads ‘Æthelwulf Rex / King Æthelwulf’ associating the ring with king…
How many people make it through each day of Replit's online 100 Days of Code tutorial.
Paul Graham on how to do great work.
What is the one task that, if completed, will make today a success? What can you do to make it as easy as possible to get started?
.@Microsoft is committed as a company to ensuring that the UK as a country has world-leading #AI infrastructure, easy access to the skills people need, and broad protections for the safety and security. blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/…
The sun set in Tromsø, Norway today at 11:51am, but it won't rise now until 15 January. For others in the Arctic Circle the wait for sunrise will be even longer!
I still haven't heard a good answer to this question, on or off the podcast. AI researchers often tell me, "Don't worry bout it, scale solves this." But what is the rebuttal to someone who argues that this indicates a fundamental limitation?
I came to this conclusion sometime last year, and it was a little sad because I wanted so hard to believe in LLM mysticism and that there was something "there there."
I came to this conclusion sometime last year, and it was a little sad because I wanted so hard to believe in LLM mysticism and that there was something "there there."
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Tommy. By Kipling. kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_tom…
You know what the tragic irony is? They are overwhelmingly white men. The very lowest on the socio-political pecking order: openly mocked, and regularly derided as “the oppressor” by our institutions and intellectual classes. Yet, it is they who will expected to fight and die.
Very good post on stock buybacks - why companies do them and why criticisms of them are largely mistaken. open.substack.com/pub/philo/p/st…
@JamesClear Lots of stresses and challenges, but first year with your first child is close.
Half Marathon: 1:19:59 - New PR - Average Pace 6:02 - Finished 5th out of 675 - 1st in age group A lot of miles in the cold darkness of the pain cave, but we got it done. Let’s go! 🚀🔥
Look at this guy. He is a 5x NYT bestseller. Fluent in Japanese, German and Spanish in 3 months. Martial arts expert. Spoke at Ted, Google, MIT, Harvard... He wrote the 4-Hour Chef on how to learn faster. This is Tim Ferriss and here's how to become a learning machine:
@paulg It's true what you're saying about the motives of regulators and journalists - these institutions have been horribly politicized in some cases and are no longer about the law or truth in any sense. But I still think it's a good idea to start startups in regulated industries -…
In journalism, names and dates are factual; the rest is fictional. In literature, names and dates are fictional; the rest is factual.
Nassim Taleb, on why literature is sometimes truer than non-fiction. @nntaleb
@Dominic2306 Some good counterpoints here: thebureau.news/p/no-the-west-… From what I've seen it looks more like a "set-up-to-fail 1938 Munich agreement" than a "genuine change of heart". Especially given RU state media publishing things like this cryptodrftng.substack.com/p/day-40-what-… *at the same time*
@Glenn_Diesen Britain has nice people and interesting architecture.
Kobe Bryant on being undeniable: "At the end of my first season in the NBA, we had made it to the Semifinals, up against Utah. But in the deciding fifth game, I let fly four airballs, and we lost our chance at the title. Those shots let me know what I needed to work on the…
I'm obsessed with learning how to learn. My brother and I have spent over 10,000hrs developing our frameworks and helped over 1M people learn smarter. If a virus wiped out my memory, this is the one framework I wish I could keep... The G.R.O.W method:
A sad day Danny Kahneman, 1934-2024 Most people knew him as a thinker. I knew him as a person.
Most people are lost. They search the world for answers without realizing it comes from within. If you don't know how to take that first step, let me give you five:
It's time to ask six hard questions about AI: bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
On my coffee table at home, I have a piece of driftwood. Its sole purpose is to display a quote by Anaïs Nin, which I see every day: “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” It’s a short reminder that success can usually be measured by the number of…
Please bookmark that thought, so as to be immune from gaslighting in 2029.
AI will probably be smarter than any single human next year. By 2029, AI is probably smarter than all humans combined.
Discipline is conditioning your brain to not give a shit if it sucks, if it’s hard, or if it hurts. If it needs to get done, it gets done.
“One should not read like a dog obeying its master, but like an eagle hunting its prey.” —Dee Hock
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